Where and when did modern architecture begin?

Answer 1

Well, one could argue that Frank Lloyd Wright's 1901 or so Prairie style architecture was the first modern style.

Answer 2

The term "Modern Architecture" caught on following a 1932 exhibition in New York. However, there are many styles which follow under the term Modern Architecture. Depending on what part of the world you were in dictated which type you were exposed to.

Art Nouveau came at the end of the 19th century in France, Scotland, and Belgium.

The International Style started in Europe in the 1920's and then spread to the US and dominated there.

Art Deco emerged in the 1920's in the US and Europe.

Modern Architecture in general was spurned by the availability of steel. Steel allowed for larger openings in the walls, building taller and reinforced concrete. There was no need to stick to the more traditional and classical engineering techniques.

Answer 3

Depends of what you mean by "modern architecture". Modern architecture started with the availability of new cheap building materials such as iron, steel, concrete and glass, and that goes back to the end of the 18th and the first half of the 19th century : mills in the northern UK, the Crystal Palace in London, skyscrapers in Chicago around 1890, Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple (Chicago, 1906), Rudolf Steiner's Second Goetheanum (Basel, Switzerland,1926), Louis Sullivan in Chicago, Victor Horta in Brussels, Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona, Otto Wagner in Vienna and Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Glasgow.

If you mean "Modernist" architecture, that started in 1890–1910 with Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Mies van der Rohe, and blossomed in 1910–1930 with Cubism, Bauhaus, and the International Style.

Answer 4

Joseph Paxton of Crytal palace

Answer 5

The Greeks and the Greek Empire ... Greek columns and perspective
although one might also argue the Egyptians with their use of pillars and the pyramid, something that still fascinates architects today